Resinous and wax-like reaction products from polyhydric alcohols and boric acid compounds



Patented June 15, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,084,261 I assinoos AND WAX-LIKE- REACTION PRODUCTS FROM POLYHYDRIC ALCO- HOLS AND BORIC ACID COIVIPOUNDS in; Drawing. Application September as, 1934. Serial No. 746,016

2 Claims.

This invention relates to new organic-boric acid compounds, and specifically to resin-like and wax-like compounds made from polyhydric alcohols and certain boric acid compounds.

An object of this invention is the production of resin-like materials by the reaction of polyhydric alcohols with boric acid compounds under certain temperature conditions;

A further object is the production of such materials which shall be capable of forming waxes and hard resins.

A further object is the productionof adhesives useful in the bonding of discrete particles of matter, such as in the manufacture of laminated mica products.

As heretofore disclosed in the following applications for patents- Boughton, Serial No. 521,378, filed March 9, 1931, Patent No. 1,975,078; Boughton, Serial No. 546,153, filed June 22, 1931; Patent No.-1,975,079; Boughton, Serial No. 546,154, filed June 22, 1931, Patent No. 2,016,274; Boughton and. Mansfield, Serial No. 599,844, filed March 18, 1932, Patent No. 1,975,080; Boughton, Serial No. 719,233, filed April 5, 1934, Patent No. 2,004,030; salts of mono- (or meta-) boric acid are of great value in the compounding of inorganic adhesives, particularly in the manufacture of laminated mica prod;

ucts, because of the colloidal, viscous, nature of their aqueous solutions and the glass-like condition of their fused forms.

It has now been found that by fully reacting various boric acid compounds with a polyhydric alcohol such as glycerol, and ethylene glycol, resinous products areformed which not only incorporate the properties of the wholly inorganic boric acid compounds in solution, but at higher temperatures continue to be adhesive andhave 'novel and valuable thermal and electrical properties throughout a wide range of temperatures.

Such products are wax-like or hard send-glass like resinous masses. Because of the unusual mechanical and chemical difliculty of analyzing such materials, no proof of their exact chemical nature can be offered at this time, but they are believed to be the ester-like derivatives of the boric acid compounds, produced by successive dehydration of the orthoand pyroforms according, in one variety, to the following diagram.

minus H2O minus H2O HsBOs H BzOo HzBzO 01 BBC: ortlio pyro meta (or mono) It is believed that all of the boric acid compounds reacted with glycerin as described below enter into this scheme in one stage or another to form, finally, the monoboric acid compound. In other words, when the reaction takes place at all, the eventual product is the monoboric acid compound.

The orthoboric acid compounds show practically none of the resinous adhesive properties sought. The pyroboric acid compounds are thinly viscous or somewhat waxy. The monoboric acid compounds on the other hand show resinousor waxy properties to a high degree.

The characteristics of the reaction products and the conditions of the reaction employed dependent on 1) the particular inorganic compound used, (2) the polyhydric alcohol used, (3) the proportions employed, and (4) the temperature.

- In general,-the reaction takes place-in three I recognizablestages, as follows: (1) At temperatures below 100 C. the boric acid compound dissolves in the polyhydric alcohol to its maximum solubility, probably to form the orthoborate. (2) From 100 to C. water of composition and reaction is evolved and the excess of boric acid compound dissolves in part to form wax-like products; or if no excess is present, the mass be-, comes inc-reasingly viscous. Such compounds are probably pyroborates. From 140 to or 200 C. viscosity increases, and complete solution takes place with evolution of considerable Water. The products are usually hard resins and are probably the monoborates. They are soluble in both water and alcohol, and are somewhat hygroscopic in moist air. Their bonding properties are excellent. At ordinary temperatures the bond is hard to flexible. After having been heated to 180315 C., a harder stiff bond is formed. Above about 300-350 C.- the organic part of the molecule is charred, Fusion of the inorganic residue to form a glassy adhesive bond takes place below 650 C. During the entire range of temperature such, materials have the property of bonding laminated mica products, and other temperatureresisting materials.

In addition to the products obtained from single j polyhydric alcohols, useful products of this type are also obtained with mixtures of polyhydric alcohols, for example, mixtures of glycerol and ethylene glycol, in any proportion, with single or mixed boric acid compounds, may be used in any 5 of the'examples described herein.

Details of the preparations and properties of various products now follow-- TABLE 1 Products of reaction between 100 g. of glycerol and various amounts of orthoboric acid Boric Obviously the optimum proportions for the hard, bonding resin'sought are 75-150 grams of boric acid to 100 grams of glycerol, and the temperature specification is 160-180".

TABLE 2 Experiments with heavy metal borates failed to show formation of analogous resinous compounds.

Theseresin-like compounds, either alone or in combination with other adhesives, form highly efilcient bonding agents for a great variety of materials, including mica flakes, sheets or layers of various materials, mineral and vegetable iibrous matter, and many kinds of powdered materials.

We claim- 1. The mono-boric reaction products obtained by reacting mixed polyhydric alcohols with at least one boric acid compound capable of reacting and combining therewith, at temperatures between about 100 C. and about 140 C., said reaction products containing mono-boric compounds and being colloidal and wax-like viscous liquids to waxy plastics.

2. The mono-borlc reaction products obtained by reacting mixed glycerol and ethylene glycol and at least one boric acid compound capable of reacting and combining therewith, at temperatures between about 100 C. and about 140 C., said reaction products containing mono-borlc compounds and being colloidal and wax-like viscous liquids to waxy plastics.

WILLIS A. BOUGHTON. WILLIAM R. MANSFIELD.

with 100 g. of glycerol Tempera- Boric acid compound Grams ture Description 01 product cen'tigrade C. 40 Boric acid".-. -150 160-180 Clear to slightly opaque hard resins.

orax 100 -160 Do. Boric anyhdride 100 160-180 Slightly opaque yellow-brown, hard T851115. Ammonium borate 100 180-200 Slightly to heavily opaque hard resins. Magnesium borate 100 180-200 Greenish yellow, clear to creamy, hard resins. Manganese borate 100 160-180 Brown, herd resins.

3 Potassium borate 100 0 Clear to cloudy, white resins. 100 1 Clear, yellowish, hard resins. Sodium monoborate 100 -160 Clear, yellowish soft to firm resins.

100 l Opaque, hard resin. Sodium perborate 100 140 Clear, dark brown, hard resin.

' Using 100 y. of ethylene glycol ins-cad of glycerol Boric acid 200 -200 Cloudy hard resins.

50 Borax 100 Clear hard resins. 

